Vodacom 3G only connecting with EDGE

[Kylie]

I was using my 3G last night and it was perfect latency up until about 10pm. Then the connection died and when I tried to reconnect the signal was 4/5 bars EDGE. Never seen this before. Connecting at EDGE was obviously pointless and I couldnt seem to get it to 3G or HSPA again.

Anyone else ever had this or knows what the issue is?

 

[Billwill]

Have you tried using MDMA to force the SIM into 3G only?

I sometimes have to do this as the MTN/Vodacom dashboards do not seem to do this...after using MDMA I can then happily run for months using the standard dashboards.

MDMA also lets you identify easily the Tower you are connected to so if you lose 3 G you may see that a particular Tower has gone down.

I use MTN and Voda sims/modems and both the providers go down sometimes for a few hours before everything is back to normal again....I would hate to be fitted with a heart Pacemaker that relies on a signal from either company to keep me alive!:wtf:

 

[Kylie]

Iv never heard of MDMA before. Could you give me some more info please.

 

[Billwill]

Iv never heard of MDMA before. Could you give me some more info please.

Look at the "Mobile Broadband" forum above.
In this forum is a Sticky started by Ginngs which tells you where to download this software.
Once you have this software loaded....you close down the dashboard of your existing Vodacom 3G modem...wait a few seconds and start up MDMA.

This straight away starts looking for a signal, shows you signal strength and noise etc. You may have to set the APN to "internet" and the phone number to *99# for Vodacom.

You can tell it to set 3G only and once you have done that it should set itself into 3G permanently and you can see which Vodacom tower it is connected to.

Once you have set it into 3G you can continue using MDMA if you so wish or go back to the Vodacom dashboard.
The nice thing about MDMA is it shows you which Tower you are using at the time so you may find that tower 12345 gives you great signal but sometimes that tower is non-existant and you are getting tower 67889 and the signal is bad. You can then try ask Vodacom what has happened to the good tower.

I currently am using Vodacom on tower cell ID 59726 with a dbm signal of -85 which is not fantastic but a lot better than the MTN signal I get here.:wtf: